Bowl Senryu: Capital One, Rose, Sugar

by SMQ on Jan 2, 2008 8:56 AM EST in News Comment 7 comments

• Michigan 41, Florida 34 • USC 49, Illinois 17 • Georgia 41, Hawaii 10

Tebow shuns all blocks
Michigan shocking in spread
Lloyd says, 'What the hell?'

SC overwhelms
Play that classless flip again!
Trojan love is back

Brennan sacked to tears
There's no crying football
Please Dawgs don't hurt him
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Hawaii

SMQ,

They are who we thought they were!

by Kennybk483 on Jan 2, 2008 10:36 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

defending a flip.

I'm going to make a distinction here between classless TD celebrations. Fred Davis deserved the flag for taunting when he scored.

Desmond Reed, on the other hand, tore up his knee so badly against Notre Dame in 05 that he can't run without a special brace on his foot to hold it in a position to run - irreparable nerve damage, you see.

Most people - well me, anyway - would hang it up and focus on limping to class while thinking about lost opportunities to go pro. Reed instead got back on the field and spent his time working on punt and kick returns, and the occasional short yardage passing play.

On that basis, I'm willing to spot him a flip into the end-zone in the Rose Bowl. He's gone above and beyond to contribute to the team, and unlike our most recent serial flipper, I doubt Reed's going on to a huge pro contract and eating beignets off Ciara.

Plainly no-one else has to take this view, but I wanted to provide the back story.

by DC Trojan on Jan 2, 2008 10:56 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I couldn't care less about the flip

Only the hypocrisy.

by SMQ on Jan 2, 2008 1:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Whose hypocrisy?

I'm a little slow after spending 10 out of the last 11 days hanging out with the 5-and-under crowd.

by DC Trojan on Jan 2, 2008 2:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ABC's

Someone (Herbstreit I think - don't hold me to that) called for Reed to sit the rest of the game, but showed replays of the flip all afternoon and will continue to show them on fast-paced highlight reels to recap the bowl season and highlight clips to promote USC the next season, etc. Reggie Bush's flip from UCLA was in Sports Illustrated, his flip against the Bears is replayed all the time and became a signature move in a video game. Announcers tut tut this stuff when it happens in front of them (Ron Franklin and his partner really bashed the kid from Florida State for flipping at the end of his INT return in the Music City Bowl) but their networks promote the hell out of it the rest of the time.

by SMQ on Jan 2, 2008 2:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

got it

but then rank hypocrisy is a great tradition in covering college sports - "we're making enormous amounts of cash here, but these young men should be acting like it's Harvard versus Penn in 1928!"

Mind you, I don't know that using the Ivy League or its inhabitants as an example of a cheating and show-boating past is that accurate; maybe that reinforces my point.

by DC Trojan on Jan 2, 2008 2:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Rose Bowl ... ouch

I guess that's what happens when you don't play particularly well (too many turnovers) and can't catch a break to save your life (the USC near-fumble ruled down - correctly, I think, but on replay they would not have been able to overturn it had they called it a fumble - that would have gone for six the other way, the fumbled catch [or, more likely, incompletion] that found its way into the hands of another receiver, the fumbled pitch that turned into a 60-yard run, and the completely bogus PI call that negated an interception). Not that Illinois would have won even if they'd gotten all of those breaks - they came out in full deer-in-the-headlights mode and the defense was out there way too long to keep up the job they had done in the second quarter and early in the third. But they could have at least made it respectable if the ball didn't bounce USC's way every blasted time.

As for Michigan ... I suppose it's fitting that Bizarro Year ends with Lloyd breaking out the spread attack and finally being able to at least slow down a spread-option offense.

by SpartanDan on Jan 2, 2008 11:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

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